Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1200-1215
Description: BW prints with handwritten captions; .1200: Japanese children gathered around flowered bushes in front of building labeled "Montgomery Hall"; .1201: Woman wearing dark dress and pearls leans over Japanese children eating at dinner table; .1202: Large group of Japanese children smile at camera in front of a high brush covered embankment; cationed "All the children"; .1203: Same composition as .1202 but children unsmiling; .1204: Children gathered around shrubs tied with paper ribbons; captioned "Learning About Trees and Schrubs"; .1205: Five knit dresses, each with a paper label inked in Japanese characters; captioned "Handwork"; .1206: Four girls in dark shorts and light tops stand smiling at the camera, their arms around each other; .1207: Two girls, in dark shorts and white tops, running with their adjacent ankles tied together in a three-legged race; .1208: Two lines of boys in school uniforms and beanie caps walk on balance beans under the supervision of an adult at left; captioned "Walking the plank to learn balance"; .1209: Children and adults stand in shallow water around a small wooden boat with a single mast; captioned "At the beach--land owned by school"; .1210: Costumed schoolchildren kneel in front of Mary and Joseph and the baby while angel stands overhead; captioned "Christmas pageant"; .1211: Little girl in smock sits on floor holding teacup in front of two cats; .1212: Children sing, crowded in behind young woman playing piano; captioned "Miss Imamura, daughter of Principal, with 3-8 yr olds"; .1213: Eight little boys stand in three ranks, hand in hand; .1214: Two little boys and two little girls stand in bright sunshine, glum looks on their faces; .1215: Three little boys stand in a snow filled scene, smiling with large snowballs in their hands; captioned "From Ikuta Imamura, Yokohama School". .
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: ca. 1950
History/Provenance: An American Protestant missionary, Mrs. C. P. Draper, established the Yokohama Christian School for the Blind in 1880. The school stressed Western techniques and partnered with the Perkins School for the Blind.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Braille Braillewriters Christian life Christmas Classrooms Emperors Japan Orientation and mobility Playgrounds Reading School children Schools for the blind and visually impaired Snow Teachers of the blind and visually impaired Winter
